The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-04-28
BOND ON THE NEW SOUTH.
Remarkable Speech Before a Charles
ton Audience.
Ners and Courier 4Dril 14M.

lne remarks OF Judge Bono IN re-
replying to the toast, AN Iudes!ruc-
tible Union Of IndestTuctio.e
Sta.es,' a; the supper of the
South Carolina Society on Tuesday
night, were the subject Of much CON-
ment and criticism. Judge Bond, in
responding to the toast, said:
Mr.. President and gentlemen of
the South Carolina Society: | was
thinking willie my friend. the Rev.
Mr.. Johnson, was speaking and SAID
that it was an uniucky or lucky ac-
cident that lie had not been born at
the foundation Of this society, that it
would have been a most unfortunate
thing had he descended to US after a
century and q half. He would have
been like one of those fossils found
in the ailuvial soil Of my native
State, and speaking Of the finding of
one of which the discoverer said that
he had found one Of the original ele-
mcnts with it's tail in its face. l am,
indeed, glad that he was not born a
century and half ago, for the es-
pecial reason that We have him with
US now. (Applause.) But l must
hasten on to thank this association,
this honorable and ancient body, for
selecting one 50 young in this gene
ration to reply to this toast, and l
hasten the more quickly to do so be-
cause my bosom is filed with aomi-
ration Of the man whose inventive
genius found the intellectual ch=wing
gum-the toast to the United States
to which l am to respond. (Laugh-
ter and applause)
Now, they gave my brother Bryan
an easy piece to speak, but l sup
pose that was because be was here at
the foundation ofthe society. Laugh
ter.) A celebrated Frenchman who
wrote about this Republic when it
was but four-score years of age, in
looking philosophically at the United
States, said that it was giant with
out bones. Since that time-though /
am not going to pronounce its eulogy
the children of this Republic have
bound It together with railroads from
one end Of it to the other, and have
stretched the telegraph from one
ocean to the other, and the giants
bones have begun to grow and they
are Of iron and his nerves Of tingling
steel. (Applause.) and SC extensive,
indeed, is this network of steel that
there is not an injury that can be
done to the body polite that the sons
of the Republic cannot in a day re-
dress. There is no wound that can
be Inflicted upon any part Of this
great country but that the great
forces Of nature, with her tingling
nerves, cannot flash the intelligence
to every part Of the Union and cause
the great national heart to make
prompt and generous response. Gap
plause)
Now what constitutes the great
ness. for greatness it must be called,
of this Republic? 1t is not great be-
cause of its powerful navy, for that
might float in fsh,pond, nor Of its
standing army, which would not make
a good skirmish line in case Of the
attack of one Of the smallest States
in the Union. It is great rather be-
cause it containes free people and
is supported by the affections Of its
children (applause); great because
she is free, and we have made our
selves great in maintaining that free
dom.
One Of the most touching things l
read in the sketch OF the history of
your society was that, even away
back in Colonial times, its founders
had the same feelings that actuateG
the founders of the Republic in the
North and New England States
they were impressed with the impor-
lance publicieducation. (Applause,)
The pioneers Of American settlement
felt that there could notsbe free Re.
public unless its people were intelli-
gent, and the first tlingsthey did was
to establish schools, and our success
has sprung mainly from the establish
ment and maintenance Of these pub
lie institutions. It is sometimes said
that education. makes the common
people dissatisfied. but, as under
stand it, the object Of q Republic is
that there shall be no common peo-
pie (applausel, and that every man
Shall stand Oh aa equality before the
law and be Independent: of every
thing except that law itself. (Ap-
plause.) Look at one OF the ques-
tioas of education to-day.
The United}StateS, or rather the
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